I was born at 3:47pm on Sunday, September 30th, 1956 at Metropolitan Hospital on 2nd & Race streets. I weighed 6lbs and 6ozs. Half a century later, I'm a 6'4" tall native Philadelphian, uprooted and replanted in El Paso, Texas.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Al-Qaida's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric says in an Al Jazeerainterview.

So, now that he's dead, can we bring the troops home?

Update 21Sep05: I thought I heard something about a tape that was just published by Al Qaida, featuring either him or Al Zawahiri, and the latter seems more accurate.